Name: The age of Decayed Futurity: The Best of Mark Samuels
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Author: Mark Samuels
ISBN: 9781614983033

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The age of Decayed Futurity: The Best of Mark Samuels

Type

Physical Book

Author

Mark Samuels

Introduction by

Michael Dirda

Publisher

Hippocampus Press

Year

2020

Language

English

Pages

270

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9 x 15.2 x 1.4 cm

Weight

0.36 kg.

ISBN13

9781614983033

Synopsis "The age of Decayed Futurity: The Best of Mark Samuels "

"Fans of literate, subtle horror will clamor for more."-Publishers Weekly Starred Review"The quality of the stories selected is so uniformly high it's difficult to single out the best..."-Rue MorgueFor the past two decades, British author Mark Samuels has written some of the most vibrant and challenging weird fiction of any contemporary writer. But his work-collected in such volumes as The White Hands and Other Weird Tales (2003), The Man Who Collected Machen (2010), and Written in Darkness (2014)-has by and large appeared in limited editions not widely distributed in the United States. This volume features seventeen of Samuels's best weird stories. Several display his fascination with technology, advertising, and urban horror, as in "Apartment 205" and the title story. Other tales speak of the writing of weird fiction itself as a potentially hazardous and supernatural enterprise, as in "The White Hands" and "Vrolyck." In several of his lengthier narratives-notably "The Gentleman from Mexico" and "The Crimson Fog"-Samuels draws upon H. P. Lovecraft's pseudomythology to venture into realms of cosmic horror. "The Black Mould" and "My World Has No Memories" are distinctively existential tales of undeniable potency. Mark Samuels is one of the pioneering weird writers of today, and this selection makes plain why he has few rivals in the portrayal of the horrors that are unique to our troubled age.

Mark Samuels

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Mark Samuels is a British fiction writer in the vein of Arthur Machen and H. P. Lovecraft. Born in the depths of Clapham, south of London, he was first published in 1988, and his short stories often focus on detailing a grim world where his protagonists gradually discover terrifying and enthusiastic sights lurking behind modernity. His work has been highly praised by people like Thomas Ligotti and Ramsey Campbell and has appeared in prestigious horror and weird fiction anthologies on both sides of the Atlantic.

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